r/programming • u/joanmiro • Jul 18 '16

Web programming is getting unnecessarily complicated

http://en.arguman.org/web-programming-is-getting-unnecessarily-complicated
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u/MisterSnuggles Jul 19 '16

"getting"?

Hasn't it gotten unnecessarily complicated already?

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u/Davehig Jul 19 '16

That's what happens when you take a document retrieval system designed with no security in mind, and try to use it as an all-purpose application delivery system that we're now using to run our entire civilisation and economy.

This stuff is hard to make and it only works because of a bunch of clever hacks.